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PYP AGENTS
PYP AGENTS Reading Inquiry
PYP AGENTS English Reading
Where all education begins — inquiry that starts in early childhood
PYP AGENTS Reading Inquiry
WHY THIS PROGRAM
Why this program
The IB PYP framework now needs a system for execution more than it needs content. This is not education that talks about IB — it is a reading system that runs IB: one book a month in a four-week inquiry, a teacher navigation guide for every lesson, principal and vice-principal training, and monthly lesson-design education. A genuine early-childhood inquiry program that closes the gap between philosophy and the classroom.
PROGRAM COMPONENTS
Materials and content
The goal of running PYP in early childhood is agency. Asking teachers and children to speak their minds with no learning design is not autonomy — it is neglect. Agency grows inside a system that helps both teachers and students inquire on their own.
PYP AGENTS Storybooks
Meeting IB transdisciplinary themes in context
Inquiring Children (Workbook)
Four-week key-concept inquiry through ATT·ATL questions
Teacher Navigation
Four-week key-concept inquiry through ATT·ATL questions — every issue, every week
Home-Connection Leaflet
Carrying learning into daily life through play
Early Inquiry Leadership Academy
Training that makes inquiry part of your school’s culture
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Developed with practicing IB teachers
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Production know-how that closes the execution gap
STORYBOOK
PYP AGENTS storybooks that open the door to inquiry
Curiosity
Interest
Where every inquiry begins
Transdisciplinary themes
Transdisciplinary
The IB learning frame
that connects to the world
For a young child, curiosity is the textbook.
This program was developed independently of the International Baccalaureate Organization and is not endorsed or approved by the IBO.
30 transdisciplinary-theme books, expanding from me to the world
Who we are
Identity, beliefs, values, health and well-being, relationships and society
5 booksWhere we are in place and time
History, geography, culture, exploration, discovery, people and environment
5 booksHow we express ourselves
Ways of expressing feelings and ideas, creativity and aesthetics, art and culture
3 booksHow the world works
The natural world, science and technology, energy, matter, force and function
6 booksHow we organize ourselves
Systems and structures, decision-making, economic activity, community and environment
5 booksSharing the planet
Sharing resources, peaceful coexistence, rights and responsibilities, ecosystems and environment
6 books
NURI × IB
The Nuri themes meet the IB transdisciplinary themes.
IB PYP develops the Nuri curriculum’s play-centered, child-centered values into a global context
- Exploring how my body is built and works
- Safe choices that protect me
- Expressing thinking in language and symbols
- The power inside stories
- Expressing feelings through art
- Appreciating art across cultures
- Our neighborhood and community
- The rules and roles of a community
- Natural phenomena and scientific principles
- Our responsibility for the planet
Where we are in place and time
Sharing the planet
STORYBOOK · STEP
STEP 1 · 2 · 3 — thirty stories
STEP 110 books
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뭘 가져가면 좋을까?
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나도 날 거야!
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내 동생 엘리
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루이를 찾아서
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장난감들의 여행
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무지개를 만들어요
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누가 휘파람을 불 수 있을까?
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나무 먹는 몬스터
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눈밭 위 모자
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엉뚱한 몬스터 모모
STEP 210 books
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내 친구 룰루
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우리 꿀이 어디 갔지?
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크고 힘센 사자
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바비의 깜짝 파티
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브루노의 얼음 여행
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검정색은 이제 그만
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피기의 소중한 교훈
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올리는 우주에 갈까?
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눈사람 아일로의 특별한 하루
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완두콩의 비밀
STEP 310 books
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안녕, 네오!
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엄마 곰의 겨울잠
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아픈 할머니 돕기 소동
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빙 아저씨, 어디 가세요?
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해변으로 갈까 집으로 갈까?
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안나 공주의 새옷
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세 호박의 소원
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옛날 옛적 나무 이야기
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겨울 친구
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학교에 괴물이 있을까?
WORKBOOK
The inquiry journey — from lesson prep to delivery, all in the book
Workbook: Inquiring Children
Set learning goals and approaches
Transdisciplinary theme – central idea – inquiry goals
Build research activities
Background-knowledge research activities for key-concept inquiry
Questions for the seven IB key concepts
Form · Function · Causation · Change · Connection · Perspective · Responsibility
This program was developed independently of the International Baccalaureate Organization and is not endorsed or approved by the IBO.
The four-week inquiry flow
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Week 1 Transdisciplinary theme
Research skills
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Week 2 Inquiry topic
Thinking skills
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Week 3 Transfer of inquiry
Thinking skills
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Week 4 Responsibility and reflection
Communication skills
TEACHER NAVIGATION
IB PYP, executed as a system
Teacher Navigation — a lesson guide for each of 120 activities across 10 books and 4 lessons a year
Less burden preparing lessons, a sharper feel for early-inquiry teaching
Teacher’s Professionalism
- Designing the lesson flow Lessons are structured along the inquire–act–reflect flow.
- Carefully built questions Inquiry is designed with questions that draw out perspectives, not demand answers.
- Growth through reflection Teachers look back on each lesson and take the next one deeper.
Inquire
Act
Reflect
Systematic lesson design that draws out the child’s self-directed learning
Child’s Inquiry-Based Growth
- From inquiry to concept Questions connect lived inquiry into an understanding of the key concept.
- From inquiry to action What was explored leads to change and practice in daily life.
- From reflection to IB learner Children reflect on the learner they are becoming, and move forward.
For every one of 120 activities — 10 books a year, 4 lessons each — the inquire–act–reflect flow and key questions are designed in advance, so teachers never lose the thread of the lesson and can focus on the child’s inquiry.
This program was developed independently of the International Baccalaureate Organization and is not endorsed or approved by the IBO.
LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Early Inquiry Leadership Academy
A training program that makes inquiry part of your school’s culture
This program was developed independently of the International Baccalaureate Organization and is not endorsed or approved by the IBO.
Principal & Vice-principal Leadership Academy
Online lectures Link sent on each branch’s registration date
Teacher Academy “The Power of Early Inquiry”
Online lectures Twice a year · 12 sessions taught by the authors
MetaEdu Materials Teacher Training
A lesson-design lecture for each monthly issue Videos by age group
For training enquiries, call 1577-3047 (ext. 4) or contact your regional Extend Education branch.
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PYP AGENTS Reading Inquiry on video
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Not talk about IB — a system that runs IB as early inquiry
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STEP 3 · Age 7 · Book 1 Hello, Neo!
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STEP 3 · Age 7 · Book 1 Hello, Neo!
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